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...Battleground Blood Diamond (2006) Civil war, child soldiers, and Leo DiCaprio doing lots of running - Sierra Leone offers big issues and non-stop action rolled into...
...silence, Burns said, are very real. While the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate said Iran had halted all nuclear weapons programs, Burns said that media coverage of the estimate had “ignored the second half” of the story. That second half, Burns said, was that researching civil nuclear technologies is a necessary step in developing nuclear weapons. “The difficulty in developing nuclear weapons is not the weaponing; it is developing the raw materials,” he said. But despite the danger, Burns said it is still necessary that America and its allies refuse...
...right-winger and scourge of les pouvoirs-qui-sont—campaigned on an image as the ruthless reformer of a defunct bureaucracy and a law and order fanatic. As Minister of the Interior, he rejected the liberal elite’s Chamberlain-complaisance amid the swells of exurban civil unrest, denouncing the young, disaffected, and largely Arab agitators as “racaille” (rabble), an inflammatory move many considered imprudent...
...percent for the first time since his election in May 2007. Sarkozy’s approval ratings have followed a definite downward trend since the series of large-scale strikes against his labor and education reforms in the fall of 2007. Various groups of public employees including teachers, civil servants, and public transport workers responded with anger to Sarkozy’s plan to slash France’s generous pensions. Perhaps their anger had something to do with the fact that Sarkozy, while espousing the values of hard work and love of labor, announced plans to increase...
...part, to the attraction of a fresh face-after 22 years in power, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad handed over the reigns to Abdullah in 2003. Abdullah also scored points by positioning himself as a progressive reformer; he promised to clean up widespread graft and strengthen civil liberties...